Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 9

"Let's eat your loaves first," says the Pope, "and afterwards we'll take to the biscuits, too."

Who acts: 's, Pope, we · What happens: let, eat, say, take · To what, where: 's, loaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts ('s, Pope, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
3	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 loaves	nmod:poss
6	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 eat	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pope	det
12	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Pope	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Pope	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	19 take	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 biscuits	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 biscuits	det
22	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 too	punct
24	too	too	ADV	_	19 take	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		's		tree rules
2	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	your loaves	first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	the Pope			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	future	we		to the biscuits result; afterwards property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to biscuit=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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